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Introduction 3

Fiona Tolhurst

An Arthurian Excerpt from the Historia regum Britannie in British Library MS Cotton Nero D.v 12

Stephen Stallcup

Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Insular Historiography 42

Kellie Robertson

The Prophetie Merlini, Animal Symbolism, and the Development of Political Prophesy in Late Medieval Scotland

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Karen R. Moranski

The Britons as Hebrews, Romans, and Normans: Geoffrey of Monmouth's British Epic and Reflections of Empress Matilda 69

Fiona Tolhurst

The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey's Historia regum Britannie 88

Maureen Fries

Three Mediators and Three Venerable Books: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Mohammed, Chrétien de Troyes 100

David Rollo

Making Contact: Postcolonial Perspectives through Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie 115

Michelle R. Warren

The Darkly Chronicled King: An Interpretation of the Negative Side of Arthur in Lawman's Brut and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie 135

Dennis P. Donahue

Translating the Historia: The Ideological Transformation of the Historia Regum Britannie in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Chronicles 148

Jane Zatta

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REVIEWS

Patrick J. Geary, gen. ed., Authors of the Middle Ages, Historical and Religious Writers of the Latin West. Vol. iv, No. 12, Carol Straw, Gregory the Great; No. 13, Roger Collins, Fredegar. 162

Thomas F.X. Noble

Joanne Findon, A Woman's Words: Emer and Female Speech in the Ulster Cycle. 163

Maureen Fries

Carol Lloyd Wood, An Overview of Welsh Poetry Before the Norman Conquest, Welsh Studies, Vol. 11. 165

Patrick K. Ford

Kim Moreland, The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. 169 Alan Lupack

Vinton A. Dearing, ed., The Works of John Dryden, Volume xvi, Plays: King Arthur, Cleomenes, Love Triumphant, and the Secular Masque. 170

Jerome V. Reel, Jr.

The Arthurian Tradition: The Myths and Realities of the Arthurian Legends. 171

Laura Blanchard

Katherine Paterson, Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight. 173

Dhira B. Mahoney

Merlin. Steve Barron, dir.
Merlin, 'The Making of Merlin'. Steve Barron, dir.
Ed Khmara and David Stevens, Merlin: The Shooting Script 174

Kevin J. Harty

Quest for Camelot. Frederik Du Chau, dir. 176

Michael N. Salda